• darvocet@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    I’m a little bit older than this. My jam was those wooden trains with the magnets that connected the cars.

    I guess it would seem weird in an adults house so i won’t buy any.

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      2 days ago

      I guess it would seem weird in an adults house so i won’t buy any.

      Relevant XKCD:

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      My dad used me as an excuse to rebuild the unfinished basement and build out the Lionel train set he’d always wanted.

      Shortly thereafter he decided he could no longer tolerate his wife and moved in with his mistress full time. He built out a room just for me, but I knew Mom would off herself if I abandoned her. Plus I was smoking by then and Dad hit me whenever I smelled like smoke.

      It was a nice train table until a pipe burst and flooded the basement. Don’t buy particle board furniture. It becomes pulp as soon as it gets slightly damp .

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    Mine was a fucking Vectrex at the pediatric dentist office i went to as a kid

    Back in the day I had no idea what it was but in knew it was cool but it wasn’t Nintendo hahaha. I remember playing a maze game which Iater would realize was Berzerk.

    Nowadays I know and man that was so cool

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      I was a Big Boy when this came in the scene, but I still fucked around with it.

      Shout-out to my youth dentist that had a Galaxian cocktail table set to free play. I always liked forward to my checkups.